The Circle

The circle–my experiment in using the compositional circle to create a graphical theme using some everyday items I come into contact within my kitchen.  Edward Weston once said, “anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual”, and this is how I look and photograph things around me.

Morning Shapes

Upon awaking in the morning one of the first things that greets us is the morning light and the way it defines some of the objects around us in these early hours. This post is a collection of images I shot one morning just observing the shapes of items that I awake to every morning.  Yes, I am guilty of a little staging – but only to help illustrate and design what I saw during that morning light.  Your comments are welcome and what do you see in those early morning hours?

Ethereal Architecture

Sunday I drove to where there was an outdoor classic car show, only to find that I had missed the show by one day.  While driving back home I became stuck by the urban landscape that blurred past me.  I became aware of some of the shapes and abstract faces of buildings I was driving past.  So, having failed at my original objective I decided to concentrate on a new subject –urban architecture.

Stopping at an office-building complex I became aware that I was not just looking at buildings with doors, stairways and glass – but a collection of individual parts that made up the complete structure.  I started to focus in on sections and the abstract forms these architectural designs offered my eyes.  This post is my interpretation of the rhythm and flowing lines and shapes of this architecture in black and white with an ethereal look.

Natural Shapes

The twisting, turning, intersecting lines and light in nature has always made me want to pickup the camera and attempt to capture this strange beauty or at least what I find beautiful.  This post is a collection of recent images from the curved lines you find inside an artichoke as apposed to the intersecting lines in an agave leaves to dried pieces of desert debris.  Photography is not just portraits and landscape images – but it can be a closer observation of the small and simple objects we may encounter on daily travels.  Photography is about learning to see again.

 

CHAIRS PART 2 -WHITE PLASTIC

White Plastic Chairs   - those plastic lawn chairs that seem to lurk around every corner and seem to be indestructible.  They have a glow about them no matter what landscape you find them in.  Long after this civilization has disappeared these white plastic chairs will be our archeological signatures.  I find my image files seem to have a collection of them lurking throughout various photo pojects– so this is the white plastic part of my chair project.